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The Success Paradox : Why We Need a Holistic Theory of Social Mobility /

Social mobility needs a re-boot. The narrow, economistic way of measuring it favoured by politicians and academics is unsustainable and is contributing to rising inequality. This timely book provides an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Atherton, Graeme (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The need for a holistic theory of social mobility
  • Social mobility: rising, falling or staying the same
  • Unpicking the political consensus on social mobility
  • Going beyond attainment
  • Unbundling, diversification and the ecological university: new models for higher education
  • The shape of the labour market: hourglass, diamond, or molecule?
  • Social mobility, well-being and class
  • A new politics of social mobility
  • Re-framing social mobility.